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Oh, admit it. We've ALL done it. There's no shame in it. So you experimented in college a little. Who cares? It's 2011, everybody plays an RPG of some kind these days. Wait, you thought we were talking about- Oh. Awkward. Well, no judgment either way. Anyway, this week we want you to cross the streams of geekery and everyday life. Give us your best ideas for how tabletop RPG concepts might apply to real life. Sure, you have your obvious "Tie of +1 Professionalism" gag, but do some research and dig a little deeper into the fantasy worlds of D&D, Warhammer, GURPS, World of Darkness, Shadowrun, Pathfinder, and the like. Now for the rules:

lyonscc

The next one, I was experimenting w/ half-tones, textures, and gradient mesh (converted to half-tones):

(Early on in the week, I took a bunch of "every day" things I get involved in, or in discussions on, and tried to tie them to RPG aspects.) Here, I tried to combine the idea of writing music and dice-based RPG's, where your decisions in composition would be based on a roll of the dice.

lyonscc

In this case, if I were LARPing an election, I would assume that Sauron would have a lot of folks in his employ. In choosing style, I figured he'd want to use early 20th Century propagandistic styling, updated and popularized again in 2008 by Shepard Fairey.

lyonscc

taternuggets

lyonscc wrote:This one tried to mash up politics/elections with RPG's.

In this case, if I were LARPing an election, I would assume that Sauron would have a lot of folks in his employ. In choosing style, I figured he'd want to use early 20th Century propagandistic styling, updated and popularized again in 2008 by Shepard Fairey.

blanked

lyonscc wrote:I actually did a version like that, but lpcampbe and my wife liked CHA over better than under.

I'm still mixed:

Hmm, I'm not really the target market. Those who are actually involved in the D&D world would be the ones to ask which is more accurate.
My taste always runs to having the nerdy hidden in the pretty, still there of course, but not the first thing you would see.

Edit: Maybe if you had the stars spell it out instead of the solid white on black text it would be a happy medium.

lyonscc

blanked wrote:Hmm, I'm not really the target market. Those who are actually involved in the D&D world would be the ones to ask which is more accurate.
My taste always runs to having the nerdy hidden in the pretty, still there of course, but not the first thing you would see.

I agree. Her idea was just to have +2 CHA and nothing else. I figured there would be no allowance of text-only designs and said we needed a pretty graphical element to go with it. I'd started on an Aurora pic, and thought that would work if I finished it, though I tried something else quick and dirty first:

My wife and lpcampbe both voted for the CHA-over-the-aurora graphic (and my wife's got a professional aesthetic eye), so that was my first option (though I'm hoping to get some feedback today before I make my final choice).

Edit: I would have converted the white lettering to a cut-out mask to reveal the rainbow if I'd finished this one.

j5

My wife and lpcampbe both voted for the CHA-over-the-aurora graphic (and my wife's got a professional aesthetic eye), so that was my first option (though I'm hoping to get some feedback today before I make my final choice)

I disagree with both of them. The big white "Times New Roman" lettering over the pretty picture seems garish to me. I'd prefer to see it more subtle.

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